Ian Holloway offers to resign after Blackpool fined over team selection

Ian Holloway has confirmed he intends to offer his resignation as Blackpool manager after the club were fined £25,000 for fielding an under-strengthen side earlier in the season.

Ian Holloway has confirmed he intends to offer his resignation as Blackpool manager after being fined over his team selection (Pic: PA)

The Premier League confirmed on Thursday that Blackpool had been handed the fine despite Holloway threatening to resign if he was punished for his team selection.

Holloway made ten changes to his side to face Aston Villa back in November, a game Blackpool lost 3-2.

On Friday, Holloway insisted he was planning on staying true to his word and would offer to resign. However, Blackpool’s acting chief executive Karl Oyston said he will ‘fight to the death’ to keep him.

Holloway told the Blackpool Gazette: ‘He [Oyston] will be getting my resignation because that is how strongly I feel. It is up to him whether he chooses to take it.

‘I don’t know who I am working for. I have done the best job I could for this club and have tried to win every single game, including the game at Aston Villa.’

Oyston responded: ‘I absolutely would not accept his resignation and I would fight to the death to keep him in his post. He has done fantastically well and deserves to manage at this level for ever.

‘It would be absolutely ridiculous if Ian felt compelled to resign because of what is an unjust decision and he shouldn’t compound that by stopping doing what he is doing so well.’